Um, UCF and FSU fans, I was just wondering if you would answer a couple of questions.

What do you have say about George O'Leary and Jimbo Fisher now?

You still have doubts about them?

You still think they're not the right guys for the jobs?

You still think they don't have the flash and panache to elevate your program into the highest echelon of college football?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

FSU and UCF are not only the two best football programs in the state of Florida; they are now two of the best programs in the United States of America.

One is back on top of the college football world.

The other is just arriving.

They come from different stratospheres, but they have one thing in common: Two coaches who have endured impetuous fans and impatient media hollering and caterwaulering that they should be put on the hot seat.

Now, would you take a gander at George and Jimbo on this surreal Sunday in our football-fanatical pigskin peninsula? What a magnificent sight to behold!

O'Leary, exactly 10 years after he accepted the job at UCF, incredibly has the Knights headed to an unprecedented Jan. 1 Fiesta Bowl matchup with Big 12 Champion Baylor — the first BCS bowl appearance in UCF history.

Meanwhile, Fisher, four years after taking over a fractured program from the iconic Bobby Bowden, has No. 1-ranked Florida State as dominant and dynastic as ever. The Seminoles, as expected, were told Sunday they will play the big, bad SEC and its champion — the No. 2-ranked Auburn Tigers — in the BCS National Championship Game Jan. 6 in Pasadena.

"What I love about what we're doing right now is we're becoming a program," Fisher said, sounding like a younger version of O'Leary. "I've always said that teams come and go; programs sustain the test of time. … It's about consistency and legacy. It's about what this group is leaving behind to the next group -- a standard of the way you do things."

O'Leary, sounding much like an older version of Fisher, told me once: "You don't take shortcuts when you're building a program. You have to be consistent. If what you believe is right and you stick to what you believe then you're ultimately going to be successful."

It wasn't so long ago when UCF fans screamed for O'Leary to be fired because he wasn't exciting enough and because his program was up one year, down the next. UCF President John Hitt stood by O'Leary because he believed his coach was establishing a solid infrastructure based on discipline, fundamentals and recruiting character … not characters.

If you're scoring at home, O'Leary has now recorded three 10-win seasons in the last four years and won three conference titles in the last seven. In their inaugural season in the American Athletic Conference, the Knights astonishingly finished unbeaten in league play and beat out more established programs like Louisville and Rutgers, who will be headed to the ACC and Big Ten next season.

O'Leary's done it by developing players the big-time schools didn't really want; guys like quarterback Blake Bortles, who was recruited to play tight end by most of the big boys. O'Leary recruited Bortles as a quarterback out of Oviedo High, and UCF's coaching staff has helped turn him into a potential first-round draft pick.

Fisher, too, was being universally panned as recently as two seasons ago. Remember the knock on him; that he not only couldn't win the big games; he couldn't win the little ones either? In his first year, the Seminoles lost to North Carolina State. In his second year, they lost to Wake Forest and Virginia. Fans began to grumble, "We got rid of Bobby for THIS!"

But most astute followers of college football could see Fisher was modernizing the program that had slipped under Bowden. I still remember before his first season when Fisher made a trip to the Seminole Club of Greater Orlando. Fisher talked about building infrastructure and hiring nutritionists, kinesiologists and psychologists. In his first season, he went from three full-time strength and conditioning coaches to eight. He talked about changing the way FSU players would eat, sleep, study, dress, practice and think.

"No business is the same way it was 10 years ago or even five years ago," Fisher said then. "You have to change."

And, oh, how the Seminoles have changed. Two straight ACC titles and a 17-1 league record over the last two seasons. Eleven players drafted into the NFL last year and six assistant coaches departed for other jobs and yet still the Seminoles have been the most dominant team in the country.

FSU and UCF.

Jimbo and George.

You still have doubts about them?

Didn't think so.

mbianchi@tribune.com. Follow him on Twitter at BianchiWrites. Listen to his radio show every weekday from 6 to 9 a.m. on 740-AM.